Stage 19: Friday, May 25: Treviso-Alpe di Pampeago. 198km

[FoxxyBrown1111]

the riders are to blame (today), not the organisers

ok. give you that. Compromise: the riders AND the newly hired marketing a$$hole. Don´t even know his name. Mr. Irrelevant destroyed the greatest GT.

 

[cineteq]

the riders are to blame (today), not the organisers

+1000000 and team tactics, if I may add.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

because riders want to win some palces on the GC, obtain the leaders jersey, win a stage... just the min things a race is all about i always thought but i might be wrong of course

haha. Their not gonna do it with a team riding high tempo on the front.
while the pace isn't a brute, it is hard enough and unlikely many riders could get any success.

 

[wirral]

I'm not convinced Harmon got his times right there. It wouldn't be the first time he has been completely wrong.

 

[Eshnar]

dont worry its been hard enough to make real selections on the final climb.

The final climb in itself is just slighly harder than Giau.
Hesjedal will do just fine if he has to race only 4 kms per stage.

 

[Froome19]

With Guardini crossing the top, there goes all hopes of the peloton lapping some riders.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

the time is f'd again?

 

[hrotha]

haha. Their not gonna do it with a team riding high tempo on the front.
while the pace isn't a brute, it is hard enough and unlikely many riders could get any success.

Liquigas has spent 75% of the Giro one acceleration away from being completely shattered.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Szymd coming back, looks lively - go figure

 

[will10]

I'm not convinced Harmon got his times right there. It wouldn't be the first time he has been completely wrong.

I quite like Harmon as a commentator, he doesn't seem to miss much although you have to take some things he says with a pinch of salt. He is completely incapable, however, of calculating time gaps and their effect on GC etc.

 

[the asian]

Had a Power outage for about an hour. Semms like I've missed nothing important

 

[whittashau]

What aren't lampre helping Liquigas? surely it's in scarponi's best interest to push the pace as well.

 

[Eshnar]

ok. give you that. Compromise: the riders AND the newly hired marketing a$$hole. Don´t even know his name. Mr. Irrelevant destroyed the greatest GT.

I think Acquarone hasn't do much different than Zomegnan did. There have been other backended (and quite crappy) Giros in recent years.
It's still too early to judge him (though I don't like the guy, too)

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

The final climb in itself is just slighly harder than Giau.
Hesjedal will do just fine if he has to race only 4 kms per stage.

We'll see, but I honestly dont think he'll be able to hold basso today. Basso will surely go all out on the final slope.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Savio is saying that José Rujano doesn't represent his team's values, because unlike Ochoa, Serpa and others, who have shown determination, Rujano just leaves the race because of, according to him, a slight problem. It seems Savio is really ****ed off at him and it is pretty sure this means Rujano won't continue with the team.

Savio sounds like an idiot - pretty obvious to everyone who knows anything about cycling that Rujano is actually suffering from severe limb-loss.

It's not like he has previous on quitting races...

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

All Liquigas, all day. Basso looks tranquilo.

 

[DominicDecoco]

You guys are hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. You want attacks with 2 difficult descents left. In any case just 'for trying something'.

Not even a week ago Purito got grilled because he 'tried something' and failed.

 

[search]

Guardini at 20 mins, gonna miss the limit

no way, he will make it, limit will be ~1 hour today so he can lose 1 minute each kilometer

 

[Escarabajo]

The problem was losing szmyd. Liqui didn't want to push the pace with capecchi and leave basso with only caruso for the final two climbs, so capecchi went his own pace, which enabled some to return and the gap to the break to actually go up

+1.

I think you got it right. Liquigas plans have changed since Szmyd is having problems with his performance.

 

[SafeBet]

Liquigas has spent 75% of the Giro one acceleration away from being completely shattered.

That's true.
But you would need a big name to attack. Scarponi or Pozzovivo. I can't see many others capable of isolating Basso.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Better giros than this one?

All. I especially liked the
1988-Edition,
2010-Edition,
2011-Edition
(in this order)

dead last: 2012

Hope for Hesjedal to win, Casar in 2nd, and one of the italian cowards to finish 3rd

 

[Fetisoff]

You guys are hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. You want attacks with 2 difficult descents left. In any case just 'for trying something'.

Not even a week ago Purito got grilled because he 'tried something' and failed.

Well, you see, Purito's attack was pointless. However if you attack with two descents and two climbs still to go, you're going to win the stage for sure.... Oh, wait..

 

[Eshnar]

You guys are hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. You want attacks with 2 difficult descents left. In any case just 'for trying something'.

Not even a week ago Purito got grilled because he 'tried something' and failed trying.

Purito did a brave and quite stupid thing, trying to get away from a FULL peloton.
In case you miss it, that was a quite different stage.
If Basso wants to win the Giro, he has to make the race hard. If he continues like this, on the final climb he won't have enough space to break the others. He will maybe win by a few seconds. He needs minutes.

 

[hrotha]

You guys are hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. You want attacks with 2 difficult descents left. In any case just 'for trying something'.

Not even a week ago Purito got grilled because he 'tried something' and failed.

We're not saying Basso, Purito or Hesjedal should attack right now. Not even Scarponi, although he should definitely use his teammates somewhere. Like to drop Basso's domestiques for example. But there's tons of people who are showing an absolute lack of ambition.

Besides, it's less than 30 km to the finish now. It's not like we're asking for epic attacks.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

I think Acquarone hasn't do much different than Zomegnan did. There have been other backended (and quite crappy) Giros in recent years.
It's still too early to judge him (though I don't like the guy, too)

Oh yes he did. He tried to copy the crappy 2009-Tdf. Now he´s got his personal Baby-Tdf.

Zomengan tried different things every year. Sometimes he failed, sometimes he was the master. But none of his were as bad as this one (w/the same coward riders, BTW)